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Making America's Best Idea Even Better
Women's Rights National Historical ParkThe First Wave in the park visitor center
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Women's Rights National Historical Park
Rebecca Race
 

Rebecca Howe Race (1808-1895) participated with her husband Whiting in a variety of civic and religious activities. Race was the vice president of a ladies temperance group that included Amelia Bloomer and several other signers of the Declaration of Sentiments. Her convictions about alcohol induced her to leave the Episcopal Church for the more temperance-oriented Presbyterian Church.

 
Wesleyan Chapel, site of the First Women's Rights Convention, as it is preserved today.  

Did You Know?
Did you know that one of the organizers of the First Women's Rights Convention in America, Martha Coffin Wright, frequently housed fugitive slaves in her kitchen?
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